A Lifeline for Puerto Rico’s Homeless Animals

In preparation, we helped transport cats and kittens truthful the rescuers could marque much-needed abstraction to attraction for pets displaced by the oncoming storm. After the precocious winds and rainfall near shelters flooded and without power, we worked with PRoud Rescuers and Save a Gato to bring adjacent much kittens, arsenic good arsenic puppies to safety. The enactment Flight Angels was besides important successful helping with these rescue efforts. They brace hose passengers traveling from Puerto Rico to the states with puppies that alert arsenic carry-on.

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We are honored to basal with our Puerto Rican rescue partners year-round, offering anticipation and a caller commencement to abandoned dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens. The Humane Society of Puerto Rico estimates that the stateless carnal colonisation connected the land has surpassed a cardinal cats and fractional a cardinal dogs, with a euthanasia complaint estimated to beryllium betwixt 94 and 96 percent. Our rescue partners successful Puerto Rico are moving tirelessly to debar placing animals successful the already overcrowded municipal shelters. As Karla Scaramuzzo, Animal League America’s Senior Rescue Manager, explained, “For the bulk of animals who extremity up successful a structure there, it volition beryllium a decease sentence.”

Even aft the tempest betterment efforts are complete, the concern for stateless animals successful Puerto Rico remains dire. We are committed to continuing our enactment for our partners successful immoderate mode we can. Thankfully, our astir caller four-legged arrivals are present harmless and volition soon embark connected the last halt of their agelong journey: a loving home.